Holidays in Spain are great. Workout, breakfast, work, lunch, work, diner, work. Making progress. Selling one project. Finishing another. Getting finance for another one. Life is good. Work is good. Because of focus and passion. When you get clarify about what you want to achieve… things start to flow. I see many people I mentor with lack of clarity. They jump from one shiny object to the next. From one project to the next. From one position to the next. From one company to the next. Never...
1 day ago • 1 min read
Multitasking kills more dreams than a nearby disco with reggaeton. Focus is everything. This is why there are so many people, companies and politicians competing for yours. Distracting you. Keeping you down… unfocused. News, sales, offers, “favours”. They arrive from everywhere with the only objective of grabbing your attention. When you are managing a project, for example, having many open fronts is a terrible distraction. You end unable to differentiate the urgent from the important, the...
2 days ago • 1 min read
The world is a hard place. Not only if you live now in Canada, Panama or Greenland. It’s a hard place. Period. People that say that money is not important have no idea of the power of money. It’s freedom. It’s choices. I just saw today the picture of a newborn among other 60 immigrants in a patera, a ship that you won’t use to fish in a lake with a couple of friends, used to travel with other 60 people, hundreds of miles in the Atlantic, from Africa to Spain. The newborn was born in that...
3 days ago • 1 min read
This is probably the most valuable lesson I've ever learned in life. It might seem stupid, insignificant, or even crude to you. And… even though, it works. In simple terms: If you want something, ask for it. Read it again and take it to heart: If you want something, ask for it. If you want something, anything, ask for it. You want a friend to go to the movies with you? Ask them. You want your partner to cook dinner? Ask them. You want your dad to pick up the kids? Ask him. Always. You want...
4 days ago • 1 min read
You arrived from holidays. You spent more than expected. You ate more than expected. You put more weight than expected. You did fewer things than expected. As usual. The question then is… What are you going to do right now? What is the action that you’re going to take immediately to be closer to your dreams? Not today. Not this week. Not this month. Now. In the next 5 minutes. What is that thing that you can do and that will put you in track of your dreams. Sure, it’s not checking the news....
5 days ago • 1 min read
It’s one of those images that were hidden. They remained unnoticed to me until two and a half years ago… when my child was born. Cigarette butts. You see them on the floor on every street, on every public square, on every children playground, in Spain. Despite signals. Despite campaigns by the government. Despite science. Despite basic education. Despite the ability to read the “smoking kills” of every package. People are attached to old habits despite they know they are bad. No matter what...
6 days ago • 1 min read
Lot of time spent with family, friends and people I used to know these days. Looking at what people do and say every 12 months is mind blowing. How close and how far away you can be 12 months, and 20.000 km away. You hear conversations. About 20 or 80 euros more or less per month that people receive in their pensions or in their social security payments. Complaints. Hopes. But not much action. Not much anything. I suppose that spending 1 or 2 hours to make a claim to the government is too...
7 days ago • 1 min read
Steve Jobs passed away 13 years ago.Hard to believe, right? After Steve Jobs passed away, the person who took his place was Tim Cook, Apple’s then Chief Operating Officer (COO).A guy who, while maybe not as brilliant as Jobs, seems to be doing things reasonably well—and who, of course, has his own share of intelligence and expertise. Tim Cook highlighted above all others in his boss and mentor, Steve Jobs. It’s a quality that might seem simple on the surface but is incredibly complex in...
8 days ago • 1 min read
Codie Sanchez, an amazing lady, building millions in boring businesses says it clearly. Your salary will never set you free. Your financial freedom can only come through ownership. More specifically, through equity done the right way She believes in boring businesses. I may try one day. I believe in making real estate a business. I propose you a very simple offer. That you take a look to my philosophy about real estate. It’s easier than you think. It just takes some work. Hard work I would...
9 days ago • 1 min read